Trump o pakcie z Iranem: “Przyniesie pokój”. Izrael ma inne zdanie

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Trump o pakcie z Iranem: “Przyniesie pokój”. Izrael ma inne zdanie

Marta Urzędowska


Irańczycy będą wspierać pokój, przestaną pracować nad bombą i finansować terrorystów – amerykańscy przywódcy zachwalają porozumienie z Teheranem, choć przyznają, że ma wstępny charakter.

Jestem bardzo szczęśliwy, bo mogę zapewnić, że naprawdę został podpisany, cały deal z Iranem został juz podpisany – zapewnił Donald Trump w czasie rozmowy z francuskim prezydentem Emmanuelem Macronem podczas szczytu G7 (15.06).

Jego zastępca, J.D. Vance dodał w CNN, że porozumienie zajmuje półtorej strony i ma „bardzo ogólny charakter”. Na razie zostało podpisane elektronicznie przez Trumpa, Vance’a i irańskiego przewodniczącego parlamentu, Mohammada Baghera Galibafa. W piątek (19.06) ma zostać formalnie podpisane w Genewie, po uroczystości jego treść ma zostać ujawniona.

Porozumienie Iran – USA. Jego treść poznamy w najbliższych dniach

Tym samym amerykański prezydent potwierdza, że zawarł porozumienie z Iranem, które o kolejne dwa miesiące przedłuża rozejm w wojnie, jaką – razem z Izraelem – rozpętał na Bliskim Wschodzie. Zaczęło się pod koniec lutego atakami USA i Izraela na irańskie cele. Bombardowania trwały przez sześć tygodni, w tym czasie sojusznikom udało się zniszczyć dużą część irańskiego arsenału pocisków i zabić ważnych przywódców politycznych i wojskowych. Irańczycy odpowiadali prowadząc ostrzał Izraela i krajów arabskich, a do tego zablokowali ważną dla transportu ropy cieśninę Ormuz, windując ceny surowca.

Choć 8 kwietnia zawarty został rozejm, do tej pory na miejscu trwał impas – nie udało się wypracować warunków trwałego porozumienia, a cieśnina Ormuz pozostawała zamknięta sprawiając, że światowe rynki szaleją.

Dziś Trump twierdzi, że wojna się skończyła, bo zawarł układ z Irańczykami, jednak nie wyjaśnia, co dokładnie znalazło się w jego treści. Obiecuje, że część zapisów zostanie ujawniona być może nawet w najbliższą środę (17.06). Na razie Amerykanin zapewnia jedynie, że porozumienie pozwoli otworzyć cieśninę Ormuz, czyli wrócić do punktu sprzed wojny, kiedy była otwarta. Amerykańscy urzędnicy sugerują, że przesmyk może zostać odblokowany już w najbliższy piątek (19.06).

Irańczycy ostrożnie potwierdzają zawarcie dealu. Wiceminister spraw zagranicznych Kazem Garibabadi potwierdził na antenie telewizji państwowej zakończenie operacji zbrojnej. Opowiedział, że katarscy negocjatorzy w Teheranie spędzili „14 do 15 godzin na długich rozmowach”, by osiągnąć wstępne porozumienie.

Dowództwo irańskich sił zbrojnych dodaje, że Irańczycy, wspierani przez sojusznicze ugrupowania w regionie pokazali Ameryce i Izraelowi, że „nie mają innego wyjścia jak zaakceptować porażkę i poddać się”. Jednocześnie irańskie MSZ wydało oświadczenie, w którym podkreśla, że nadal „głęboko nie ufa” Amerykanom, a porozumienie to „jedynie krok w kierunku zmniejszenia napięć”.

Vance: Iran nie będzie wspierał terrorystów, ani pracował nad bombą

Poza otwarciem cieśniny porozumienie nie zawiera żadnych konkretów. Nie znalazły się w nim zapisy dotyczące rezygnacji Iranu z programu nuklearnego, czego do tej pory domagali się Amerykanie. Rozmowy w sprawie bardziej trwałego porozumienia mają się rozpocząć w najbliższych dniach. Jakiekolwiek ustępstwa ze strony Amerykanów w kwestii zniesienia sankcji na Iran i uwolnienia irańskich pieniędzy będą zależały od wyniku negocjacji.

Vance przyznał w rozmowie z CNN, że do dopracowania pozostało wiele szczegółów.

Pewne kwestie będziemy musieli wypracować podczas fazy technicznych negocjacji, jednak obecny deal daje ramy, w ramach których Irańczycy dostają pewne korzyści, jeśli dotrzymają swoich zobowiązań

– przekonywał. Dodał, że już w pierwszym paragrafie porozumienia zapisano, że Iran „zobowiąże się do regionalnego pokoju i stabilności”, co – według wiceprezydenta – oznacza wstrzymanie finansowania „organizacji terrorystycznych”.  – Co ważniejsze, złożą zobowiązanie, że nie skonstruują broni atomowej – dodał.

Choć Amerykanie przedstawiają to jako sukces, niewiele się zmieni. Irańczycy zawsze zapewniali, że nie pracują nad bronią atomową. Spór dotyczył ich prawa do wzbogacania uranu i w ogóle posiadania programu nuklearnego. Trump domagał się, by całkowicie z niego zrezygnowali, o czym ajatollahowie nie chcieli dotąd słyszeć. Nie jest jasne, na jakie ustępstwa zgodzili się teraz.

Irańczyk przechodzi przed antyizraelskim muralem. Teheran, 6.06.2026. Fot. REUTERS/Majid Asgaripour

Netanjahu o pakcie Iran – USA: “To porozumienie Trumpa”

Zapewnienia Trumpa, że wojna się skończyła, mogą okazać się przedwczesne, bo porozumienia nie akceptują Izraelczycy, z którymi wspólnie ją rozpętał i prowadził. W poniedziałek (15.06) izraelski premier Benjamin Netanjahu wprost stwierdził, że nie czuje się związany nowym porozumieniem.

– Walka się nie skończyła – skwitował, przemawiając do Izraelczyków.

– Mamy z USA relację partnerską – zapewnił, jednocześnie podkreślając, że nie zawsze się zgadza z amerykańskim prezydentem. – Zdarza się nawet w najlepszych rodzinach – dodał.

To porozumienie wypracowane przez Stany Zjednoczone, przez ich prezydenta, to jego decyzja. A my mamy własne interesy

– podkreślił.

Choć nie przyznał, że wojna z Iranem się skończyła, zapewnił, że Izrael ją wygrał. Bo gdyby wojny nie było „Iran już miałby bomby atomowe”, a Izraelczykom groziłoby „śmiertelne niebezpieczeństwo masowej zagłady”. Netanjahu mija się z prawą – Irańczycy przed wojną mieli setki kilogramów wysoko wzbogaconego uranu, ale byli daleko od zbudowania bomby. Nie byliby w stanie tego zrobić w ciągu kilku miesięcy.

Grożąc wykolejeniem amerykańskiego układu z Iranem, Netanjahu nie blefuje. Jest w stanie udaremnić wysiłki na rzecz trwalszego rozejmu kontynuując równoległą wojnę, jaką prowadzi w Libanie. Konflikt na miejscu rozgorzał tuż po pierwszych nalotach USA i Izraela na Iran – libańscy terroryści z Hezbollahu, którzy są wiernymi sojusznikami Teheranu, w ramach solidarności z potężnymi sponsorami, natychmiast rozpoczęli ostrzał północnego Izraela.

Benjamin Netanjahu i Donald Trump Fot. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

W odwecie izraelska armia do dziś prowadzi na miejscu bombardowania celów Hezbollahu i operację lądową. Do tego odcięła południe kraju od reszty Libanu, tworząc na miejscu tzw. zmilitaryzowaną strefę buforową, która ma zabezpieczyć północ Izraela przed atakami terrorystów. Faktycznie oznacza to nielegalną okupację libańskiego terytorium, a Irańczycy od tygodni powtarzali, że nie będzie trwałego dealu kończącego wojnę, jeśli izraelska armia pozostanie w Libanie.

Dziś Netanjahu powtarza, że izraelscy żołnierze nie wycofają się. – Chcę, żeby było jasne: Pozostaniemy w strefach bezpieczeństwa tak długo, jak będzie to konieczne dla obrony naszego kraju – skwitował tym samym sygnalizując, że okupacja może trwać bez końca.

Świat komentuje doniesienia o porozumieniu. Kanclerz Niemiec Friedrich Merz przyznał, że deal może ustabilizować światową gospodarkę, jednak ostrzegł Izrael, że porozumienie musi objąć też Liban. Także szefowa Komisji Europejskiej, Ursula von der Leyen, ostrzegła, że „nie będzie trwałego pokoju, kiedy Liban nadal płonie”.


Redagował Michał Olszewski


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It’s Not Biased if It’s Against Jews


It’s Not Biased if It’s Against Jews

Jon Michaels and Matthew Segal


Civil rights law has always recognized coded discrimination, but a federal court decision suggests that may no longer apply to Jews—or their allies

A rioter breaks the front door windows of Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus in order to secure a chain around the building to prevent authorities from entering, April 30, 2024 in New York City / Alex Kent/Getty Images

To paraphrase Law & Order, in the American legal system, bias-motivated offenses are considered especially reprehensible. Punching someone is bad. Punching them for racist reasons is worse. So various laws, both criminal and civil, prescribe enhanced penalties in those situations. Sometimes the racism is unmistakable. At other times, it’s hidden behind code words or dog whistles—thugsurbanglobalists, etc.—or seemingly neutral markers like hair and dress. No matter; courts, prosecutors, and legislators have become quite adept at sniffing out crafty bigotry.

Yet the invocation of Zionism has, inexplicably, thrown them all for a loop. In the United States and across the globe, participants in purportedly anti-Zionist movements are committing crimes and civil offenses. Sometimes they harm Jews. Sometimes they harm non-Jews. But, in all cases, the people who commit these crimes—as well as their legions of defenders—argue that there is no bias. Any animus, they insist, is not antisemitic or anti-Jewish. It is anti-Zionist. Some of their best friends, these assailants are quick to add, are Jews.

As much as these claims have been dissected, debated and, regularly, debunked in a variety of settings, the courts are just beginning to weigh in. Will they treat the targeting of alleged “Zionists” as purely political—and thus not evidence of racial or religious bias? Or will they see it as integral to the racial and/or religious identity of American Jews?

Earlier this month, a federal district court judge in New York gave us a sneak peek at how the U.S. legal system might resolve what many see as yet another ham-fisted effort to work around long-standing civil rights laws. The results weren’t pretty. The court adopted a number of conclusions that, if accepted by other courts, would substantially weaken the civil rights of those harmed by anti-Zionist campaigns of harassment and violence. That’s bad news for Jews, their allies, and anyone else who happened to get in the anti-Zionists’ way.

If allowed to stand, the ruling could embolden more anti-Jewish agitators, effectively furnishing them with a virtual blueprint to harass without violating the KKK Act.

Mariano Torres and Lester Wilson, the men at the center of the New York case, got in the way. Neither Torres nor Wilson is Jewish. They are janitors employed by Columbia University. And like so many trying to go about their studies or jobs in Morningside Heights or around the country since Oct. 7, 2023, Torres and Wilson found their efforts impeded—and their lives imperiled—by those obsessed with Jews and Israel, the Jewish state.

On April 30, 2024, this obsession turned riotous. Masked militants, armed with hammers, knives, bolt cutters, chains, and zip ties, stormed Hamilton Hall and confronted the two working men. Torres and Wilson each refused to yield, which drew the ire of the rioters who then assaulted the janitors, detained them, sought to bribe them, and slurred them as “Jew lovers,” “Jew workers,” and “Zionists.” Eventually, according to their lawsuit, Torres fled, and Wilson was forced out of the building. The rioters, meanwhile, kept going. They seized the building, broke windows to chain the doors shut, barricaded themselves inside, and unfurled banners declaring an “intifada.”

Torres and Wilson later filed a civil rights lawsuit. With the help of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Torridon Law firm, the pair relied on the Civil Rights Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, to argue that they were victimized by an anti-Jewish riot. A provision of that law prohibits people from conspiring to deprive “any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws.” To satisfy that equal protection component, plaintiffs must generally show that the conspiracy was motivated by “some racial or perhaps otherwise class-based, invidiously discriminatory animus.”

According to Torres and Wilson’s complaint, that’s precisely what occurred: The rioters, motivated by anti-Jewish animus, had conspired to deprive equal protection of the laws to people who are or are perceived to be Jews or supporters of Jews.

The clear focus of the lawsuit was illegal conduct, not speech. Torres and Wilson sought damages for alleged assault and battery during an illegal building occupation. They weren’t concerned with the rioters’ opinions on world affairs. They were concerned with the crowbars, rope, chains, and zip ties. They were concerned with their seizure of university property. They were concerned with being detained and threatened.

Torres and Wilson also happened to understand the nature of the riot because, allegedly, the rioters made it clear. Jews and those presumed to side with (or, gasp, love) Jews were the problem.

This is precisely the type of situation Congress anticipated when enacting the KKK Act—that is, the supercharging of ordinary crimes into far more socially corrosive hate crimes based on evidence of discriminatory animus. Yet the court twisted itself, the facts, and the law in knots, rendering an error-filled decision that had the effect of widening what we see as an emerging anti-Zionism exception to civil rights law. So long as you scream about Zionists and not Jews (or, as in this case, even if you interchangeably slur Zionists and Jews as you brandish knives and hammers), the courts will give you a hall pass.

We count four errors, none subtle and some gratuitous.

First, the court deemed it of critical importance that the rioters weren’t singularly focused on harming Jews. Defining the rioters’ objectives in terms of seizing a building and issuing demands related to Israel, the court seemed to insist that because the rioters had those intentions, they couldn’t also have had an additional objective: namely, to deprive Jews of their civil rights, including their right to access their school’s buildings without passing through a phalanx of occupiers seeking to identify Jew lovers.

As a matter of law, that can’t be right. With apologies to Walt Whitman, even violent bigots may contain multitudes. Klansmen tormenting Black families, for example, may genuinely be motivated by economic anxieties or other feelings of inadequacy. But that doesn’t mean their purpose isn’t also to deprive Black families of their political and economic rights. For how else, in their view, can they address those anxieties other than to knock Black people down a peg or two?

Here, if Torres and Wilson’s allegations are true (and at this stage of litigation, courts must assume as much), then the rioters were motivated to take the actions they did—occupying a building, issuing demands, and attacking perceived “Jew worker[s]” and “Jew lover[s]” who got in their way—partly because they wanted to harass and intimidate Jews. To bar them from buildings. To impede their studies. To limit their participation in campus and civic life. And to exclude them from positions of power. After all, if the janitors were, as the rioters allegedly said, “working for the Jews,” wouldn’t it be necessary for the rioters to knock those all-powerful Jews down a peg or two?

It’s possible to imagine a less clear-cut case, one in which people accused of bias could reasonably contend that their brand of anti-Zionism didn’t have any indicia of anti-Jewish animus. But that would have to be a case in which rioters didn’t allegedly toggle between anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish slurs. It would have to be a case in which those who deployed the term intifada and who sought to portray it as a benign reference to peaceful “struggle” hadn’t themselves used that term to describe their own violent, anti-Jewish riot.

In such a hypothetical case, a court might reasonably struggle with deciding whether the riot was anti-Jewish. Then, depending on the law at issue, the court might have to consider whether an anti-Zionist riot, even if not anti-Jewish, might still amount to discrimination based on national origin. (Israel is a country, and Columbia has Israeli students, staff, and faculty who enjoy the same rights as non-Israelis.)

But that was not this case. Given the facts alleged by Torres and Wilson, it is baffling that the court failed to recognize the riot’s anti-Jewish nature and purpose.

The court’s view—that the rioters merely wanted to seize a building and use the unfurled banner to effect transformative changes to Columbia’s policies—seemed to confuse tactical and strategic intent. True, the rioters allegedly deployed the tactic of taking over a building. But that doesn’t mean they did not have broader, anti-Jewish strategic aims. To suggest otherwise is to misunderstand what racism is and how it works. Racism does not cease to exist just because racists typically have a set of policy demands.

The second error was no less glaring and galling. In assessing the rioters’ alleged objectives, the court seemed to say that the evidence cited by Torres and Wilson could not possibly establish discrimination if it took the form of what the court called “political speech.” This included unfurling “intifada” banners and slurring Torres and Wilson as “Jew lover[s]” and “Zionists.”

But political speech can, of course, be racist. The phrases “America first” and “Spend your money with Americans only,” for example, are undoubtedly examples of political speech. And shouting those phrases, without more, is undoubtedly free expression protected by the First Amendment. But both phrases happen to have been popularized by the Klan. So if someone shouts them while committing a violent crime, that speech—though “political”—not only fails to excuse the crime but also may demonstrate that the crime was extraordinary, precisely because it was motivated by anti-Black racism.

Judge Colleen McMahon whiffed on this crucial point. Shouting about “intifada” or “Zionists” or “Jew lovers” while committing crimes doesn’t—or, at least, shouldn’t—save Torres and Wilson’s alleged tormentors.

Third, the court remarked that “the Jewish community itself is divided over whether anti-Zionism is inherently antisemitic.” Seemingly relying on that intramural dispute, the court declined to acknowledge that anti-Zionist rhetoric can be racist.

By inserting the modifier inherently, Judge McMahon gave away the ghost. What does it matter if some Jews think anti-Zionism is not inherently anti-Jewish? Characterizing someone as “a Jew” isn’t inherently bigoted either. As Adam Sandler has demonstrated, it might be downright celebratory. Yet it also, depending on the setting, can be racist. If someone menaces a woman on the subway, attacking her while calling her “a Jew” (or “Jew lover”), courts would certainly view such an utterance as evidence of anti-Jewish animus.

It is therefore stunning to see this court hold that the term Zionist—even when used as a slur—can’t, as a matter of law, ever be antisemitic or racist.

We struggle to believe that any court would apply similar standards to other groups and other code words or symbols. Some Black people are reportedly comfortable with the Confederate flag. But we would hope that no judge would use those reports as evidence that all Black people are estopped from alleging racism if someone takes over a building and raises the Confederate flag from its balcony.

The truth is that no minority group is monolithic. But diversity within a racial, ethnic, or religious group can’t be a reason to weaken civil rights protections for that group. Does anyone seriously think that if college campuses were to experience a wave of anti-Kwanzaa violence, the application of civil rights laws to that violence should hinge on polling Black people about their pro- or anti-Kwanzaa views? Again, we hope no court would think that.

Courts should not invent a different approach for Jews. Many Jews, including those experiencing the lion’s share of harassment and violence on college campuses and across the United States, feel that a connection to the ancient and present Jewish homeland (aka Zionism) is constitutive of their religious, ethnic, or national identities. Anti-Zionist Jews aren’t required to feel the same way. But neither are they empowered to deprive other Jews of the protections of this country’s civil rights laws.

And if that deeply felt connection between many Jews and Israel wasn’t enough to defeat an emerging anti-Zionism exception in civil rights law, the alleged facts of this case would be. The ease of fluency with which the rioters toggled among calling the janitors “Jew lover,” “Jew worker,” men who were “working for the Jews,” and “Zionist” should have sufficed in this case to bring Torres and Wilson within the protection of the KKK Act.

Fourth—yes, there’s more—the court seemed to think it mattered that Torres and Wilson were neither Jewish nor trying to defend Jews. Whether they’re incorporated into Sandler’s “Chanukah Song” lyrics is completely irrelevant. The KKK Act nowhere requires proof that plaintiffs are themselves members of the disfavored group. They need only be victims—collateral damage, if you will—of those who sought to target that group.

And for good reason. If white, Christian neighbors refuse to allow the Klan to run across their yard to reach a Black or Jewish family’s home—and are assaulted for their troubles—they are, justly, afforded a civil rights remedy. No one probes the victims’ motives, which could range from racial solidarity to human decency to the preservation of a newly sodded lawn. Otherwise, campaigns of racial or religious subordination could be advanced solely through the systematic targeting of third parties, leaving vulnerable minorities even more isolated and defenseless.

We assign no malice to the district court. But we genuinely wonder why Judge McMahon bought into a set of deeply problematic assumptions about the forms that anti-Jewish bias can take. If allowed to stand, her ruling will not only wrong Torres and Wilson, whom the court recognizes were treated “despicabl[y],” but also signal to other non-Jews—laborers, cops, and university presidents alike—that they, too, are at the mercy of the mob. Just as dangerously, the ruling could embolden more anti-Jewish agitators, effectively furnishing them with a virtual blueprint to harass without violating the KKK Act.

Our wonderment is heightened because, so far as we can tell, Judge McMahon’s ruling wasn’t generically hostile to civil rights plaintiffs of all kinds and creeds. It was distressingly bespoke, limiting the rights of people who are Jewish or Jewish adjacent. While we would hate to see an across-the-board retrenchment of civil rights, we can’t help but feel the sting that comes when one group, and one group alone at a moment of special peril, is denied the equal protection of the law.

Traditionally, this nation has made good on its constitutional promises by broadly construing civil rights protections, thereby bringing more groups into the fold. With some notable exceptions, this has been especially true of civil rights protections codified by statute. Even the current U.S. Supreme Court, with its conservative bent, recently read a civil rights law enacted in the 1960s expansively to protect transgender persons. Now, at a time when Jews are increasingly targeted for hate and violence, often under the troublingly talismanic anti-Zionist banner, Jews and their allies are being denied protection under existing civil rights laws by the very courts charged with applying them. The divergence of two sets of antidiscrimination norms—a broadening set of antidiscrimination protections for many groups and a narrowing one for Jews and their allies—is unmistakable.

We therefore hope that Torres and Wilson will appeal their case and that the court of appeals will recognize the district court’s missteps and make things right. To deter and punish anti-Jewish violence, our legal system must be capable of diagnosing it.


Jon Michaels is Professor of Law at UCLA Law School. The views expressed here are solely his personal views and do not reflect those of any employer.


Matthew Segal is Professor of the Practice in the Department of Political Science at Tufts University. The views expressed here are solely his personal views and do not reflect those of any employer.


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Iranian Soccer Fans Wave Pre-Revolutionary Flag During World Cup Match, Ignoring FIFA Ban


Iranian Soccer Fans Wave Pre-Revolutionary Flag During World Cup Match, Ignoring FIFA Ban

Shiryn Ghermezian


Soccer Football – FIFA World Cup 2026 – Group G – Iran v New Zealand – Los Angeles Stadium, Inglewood, California, US – June 15, 2026, Iran fans celebrate after the match. Photo: REUTERS/Matthew Childs

Fans of the Iranian national soccer team disregarded a FIFA ban by displaying Iran’s pre-revolutionary flag inside SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, during the country’s World Cup opener against New Zealand on Monday night.

Iran’s official flag before 1979 is red, white, and green, and at the center is the Lion and Sun emblem, which shows a lion holding a sword while standing in front of a sun. The Iranian pre-revolutionary flag was seen throughout the crowd at Monday’s World Cup match, and the Lion and Sun emblem was also displayed on various T-shirts worn by fans in the stands.

FIFA previously said the pre-revolutionary flags would be banned from matches for the 2026 World Cup because they violate the organization’s “stadium code of conduct” rules, which state that “banners, flags, fliers, apparel and, other paraphernalia, that are of a political, offensive and/or discriminatory nature, containing wording, symbols or any other attributes aimed at discrimination of any kind against a country” will not be allowed at World Cup venues. A lawsuit was filed to challenge the prohibition, but at an emergency hearing held in Los Angeles hours before Iran’s match on Monday, a judge upheld FIFA’s ban on the flag, according to The Athletic.

Some Iranian fans turned their backs to the field and booed when Iran’s national anthem was played before kickoff on Monday, while hundreds of Iranian-Americans rallied outside SoFi Stadium to protest the current Iranian regime, an authoritarian, Islamist theocracy which seized power in 1979. Monday’s game between Iran and New Zealand ended with a 2-2 draw.

The Los Angeles area is home to the largest Iranian population in the United States and is nicknamed “Tehrangeles” after the capital of Iran.

The Iranian team landed in the US on Sunday, the day before the match, because of visa complications. Amir Ghalenoei, the coach of Iran’s World Cup team, said they were ordered to leave the US and return to their training base in Tijuana, Mexico, only a few hours after the game ended. He did not specify who ordered the team to leave the country, but they had expected to spend the night in California to recover from their World Cup opening game.

“They didn’t even give us time to recover,” Ghalenoei said through an interpreter, as reported by the Associated Press. “After the game today, they said to us, ‘You have to leave immediately.’ It’s very important for us to have time for recovery, [but] we are asked to get on a plane and return to our camp in Tijuana, and we are really troubled by that.”

The coach claimed several players developed cramps during Monday’s match because they did not have time to properly prepare beforehand due to their travel issues.

“The fact they delayed our arrivals and they are forcing us to go back early without time for recovery, they are making the situation more difficult,” he said.

“We don’t know why they are returning us, to be honest,” Ghalenoei added. “I think it’s very strange. It seems like others are doing the planning for us. The decision-making for us is being made elsewhere. We were supposed to come two nights before the game, and we were supposed to stay tonight to recover and return tomorrow at lunchtime. We have no idea why. I think our team is perhaps the most oppressed in the World Cup.”

Iran still has two World Cup group-stage matches. They will play against Belgium in Inglewood on Sunday, before heading to Seattle to face Egypt next week. After the US and Israel launched its war against Iran on Feb. 28, Iran requested to move its three World Cup matches outside of the US, but FIFA denied their request.


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USAID potwierdza izraelskie twierdzenia: ponad 100 pracowników UNRWA w Gazie było powiązanych z Hamasem


USAID potwierdza izraelskie twierdzenia: ponad 100 pracowników UNRWA w Gazie było powiązanych z Hamasem

Hugh Fitzgerald


Gdy Siły Obronne Izraela (IDF) wkroczyły do Strefy Gazy, odkryły, że Hamas wykorzystywał obiekty UNRWA, w tym szkoły, szpitale i meczety, do ukrywania zarówno bojowników, jak i broni, w tym wyrzutni rakiet. Pod siedzibą główną UNRWA w Gazie Hamas zbudował swoje główne centrum dowodzenia i kontroli. IDF odkryły również listy członków Hamasu i mogły porównać je z listą pracowników UNRWA. Ustalenia te skłoniły Izrael do oskarżenia, że wielu pracowników UNRWA było jednocześnie członkami Hamasu, a dziesiątki z nich uczestniczyły w okrucieństwach popełnionych 7 października 2023 roku. UNRWA oczywiście temu zaprzeczyła.

Teraz amerykańska agencja rządowa USAID opublikowała raport, który potwierdza izraelskie twierdzenia. Więcej informacji na temat raportu USAID dotyczącego pracowników UNRWA i ich powiązań z Hamasem można znaleźć tutaj: „Ponad 100 pracowników UNRWA zgłoszonych do Departamentu Stanu USA z powodu związków z Hamasem i atakami z 7 października”, Danielle Greyman-Kennard, Jerusalem Post, 9 czerwca 2026 r.:

USAID wskazała 101 obecnych lub byłych pracowników UNRWA do Departamentu Stanu USA z rekomendacją zawieszenia lub wykluczenia z możliwości współpracy ze względu na ich rolę w masakrze z 7 października i/lub powiązania z Hamasem – poinformowało w ubiegłym tygodniu Biuro Inspektora Generalnego USAID.

Wśród skierowanych osób znaleźli się dyrektorzy szkół, nauczyciele, pracownicy ochrony, personel pomocniczy, doradcy psychospołeczni oraz pracownicy służby zdrowia zatrudnieni przez UNRWA (Agencję Narodów Zjednoczonych ds. Pomocy Uchodźcom Palestyńskim na Bliskim Wschodzie).

Część z nich była już wcześniej zgłaszana przez USAID, jednak od czasu pierwszego zgłoszenia ujawniono dodatkowe informacje.

Dwóch zastępców dyrektorów szkół w placówkach UNRWA pełniło wysokie funkcje w Brygadach Izz ad-Din al-Kassam, czyli tzw. wojskowym skrzydle Hamasu – podała USAID.

Jeden z pracowników UNRWA służył jako zastępca dowódcy kompanii w batalionie piechoty Ain Gallout/5. Inny był dowódcą drużyny w Brygadzie Chan Junus/2. batalionie piechoty.

Zastępca dyrektora szkoły pełnił funkcję dowódcy plutonu w batalionie Hamasu w Nusejrat i odpowiadał za łączność podczas masakry z 7 października – poinformowała USAID. Z kolei jeden z nauczycieli dostarczył dwa pociski przeciwpancerne do wyznaczonego miejsca przeznaczonego do wykorzystania podczas działań Hamasu 7 października. …

„Traktujemy te zarzuty bardzo, bardzo poważnie i każde oskarżenie o naruszenie zasady neutralności przez pracownika będzie traktowane bardzo poważnie, w tym również domniemane członkostwo w objętych sankcjami organizacjach palestyńskich” – powiedział rzecznik UNRWA w rozmowie z The Jerusalem Post.

„Prowadzimy politykę zerowej tolerancji wobec naruszeń neutralności, co oznacza, że w UNRWA nie ma miejsca dla terrorystów, przestępców ani osób, które nie podzielają wartości Narodów Zjednoczonych” – dodał rzecznik.

Czy wierzycie UNRWA, gdy twierdzi, że „nie ma miejsca dla terrorystów ani przestępców” w jej szeregach? Najwyraźniej przez wiele lat było w niej całkiem dużo miejsca dla członków Hamasu zatrudnionych w Gazie. UNRWA doskonale wiedziała również, że Hamas wykorzystywał jej obiekty w całej Strefie Gazy, zwłaszcza szkoły, do ukrywania swoich członków i broni, lecz nadal temu zaprzeczała nawet po tym, jak IDF przedstawiły dowody obecności Hamasu w tych placówkach. IDF odkryły podziemne centrum dowodzenia, kontroli i przetwarzania danych Hamasu bezpośrednio pod siedzibą Agencji Narodów Zjednoczonych ds. Pomocy Uchodźcom Palestyńskim w mieście Gaza. Nie było możliwości, aby personel UNRWA nie wiedział o istnieniu tego ogromnego centrum dowodzenia Hamasu.

Obecnie USAID stwierdziła istnienie jasnych i przekonujących dowodów, że 101 pracowników UNRWA było jednocześnie członkami Hamasu, a wielu z nich uczestniczyło w okrucieństwach popełnionych 7 października. Nie jest to już wyłącznie twierdzenie Izraela, lecz również agencji rządu Stanów Zjednoczonych. USAID skierowała tych 101 obecnych lub byłych pracowników UNRWA do Departamentu Stanu USA, który zdecyduje o ich zawieszeniu lub wykluczeniu z możliwości współpracy z powodu ich roli w masakrze z 7 października i/lub powiązań z Hamasem. To jednak nie wystarczy. Stany Zjednoczone nie zapewniają już żadnego finansowania UNRWA. Ich sojusznicy nadal jednak to robią. Rząd amerykański powinien udostępnić im raport USAID, pokazujący skalę powiązań personelu UNRWA z Hamasem, próbując przekonać ich do wstrzymania finansowania tej organizacji.

Ponadto Organizacja Narodów Zjednoczonych podzieliła swoje działania dotyczące uchodźców pomiędzy dwie całkowicie odrębne instytucje. Jedną z nich jest UNRWA, zajmująca się wyłącznie uchodźcami palestyńskimi, a drugą Wysoki Komisarz Narodów Zjednoczonych ds. Uchodźców (UNHCR), który odpowiada za wszystkie pozostałe populacje uchodźców na świecie. Dlaczego uchodźcy palestyńscy mają być traktowani w tak szczególny sposób? Dlaczego nie zlikwidować UNRWA i nie włączyć jej działań do UNHCR? Co więcej, dlaczego status uchodźcy palestyńskiego miałby być dziedziczony, tak aby wnukowie i prawnukowie pierwotnych uchodźców, których pozostało około 20 tysięcy, również otrzymywali międzynarodową pomoc jako „uchodźcy”? Rząd amerykański powinien domagać się, aby status uchodźcy nie był dziedziczony; zamiast pięciu milionów tak zwanych „uchodźców palestyńskich” otrzymujących dożywotnie wsparcie, kwalifikować się do niego powinno jedynie około 20 tysięcy Palestyńczyków, którzy nadal żyją i którzy stali się uchodźcami w latach 1947–1949.


P.S. Od tłumacza – 12 czerwca UN Watch poinformowała, że w reakcji na amerykańskie informacje UNRWA zwolniła 70 pracowników powiązanych z Hamasem. Izraelczykom nigdy nie wierzymy, ale jeśli Amerykanie aż tak się upierają, to ostatecznie możemy niektórych zwolnić.


Link do oryginału: https://jihadwatch.org/2026/06/usaid-confirms-israeli-claims-more-than-100-unrwa-staff-in-gaza-connected-to-hamas

Jihad Watch, 11 czerwca 2026


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Trump’s chaos and incoherence have led to failure on Iran


Trump’s chaos and incoherence have led to failure on Iran

Jonathan S. Tobin


The damage that Israel and the United States did to the Islamist terror regime was undone by an agreement that rewards Tehran and vindicates former President Barack Obama.

U.S. President Donald Trump participates in an arrival ceremony at Beijing International Airport, May 13, 2026. Credit: Daniel Torok/White House.

It’s a bitter pill to swallow for those who have spent much of the last decade lauding President Donald Trump as the most pro-Israel president since the founding of the modern-day Jewish state. It’s equally difficult for those who understood that his rejection of the patent nostrums of the foreign-policy establishment that was entrenched in the U.S. State Department, the media and the academy was essentially correct in almost every instance.

Yet there’s no denying that Trump’s decision to make a deal with Iran—the rogue state that he had gone to war against on Feb. 28 alongside Israel—represents a staggering defeat for the United States, Israel and himself personally. And those who have commended the president for all the good things he did during his time in the White House should not be reluctant to say so.

Misplaced faith

The agreement, which Trump touted as “real peace” because it opened up the Strait of Hormuz, is a triumph for Tehran. The Iranians surrendered nothing except that one counter-measure to which they had resorted after it was clear that it was losing badly. What makes it all the more dismaying for Trump’s defenders is that one key criticism of his presidency has been vindicated.

The lack of precision and intellectual consistency in the president’s policy pronouncements has always been derided by his critics. But as long as Trump stuck to his instinctive distrust of the “expert” class that had guided American foreign policy for generations, that really didn’t matter. The approach that guided his decisions to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; pursue the Abraham Accords, rather than stick to futile efforts to broker peace with the Palestinians; and hit Iran hard to end its bolstering of international terrorism and give up its nuclear ambitions has led to success.

The same was true of other successes he achieved, such as securing the border that former President Joe Biden had left undefended, allowing millions of illegal immigrants to flood the country; toppling Nicolás Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela; or forcing elite American universities to stop tolerating and encouraging campus antisemitism because of their woke DEI policies.

So long as that was true, the president’s braggadocio and wild social-media posts filled with hyperbolic threats and boasts were merely a matter of style and manners.

But the failure in Iran can be traced back to the chaos that always lay underneath everything he did. Trump could have stuck to a principled stand on Iran, despite setbacks and problems, until victory. Launching a war with all of its unpredictable outcomes and variables was not the same as issuing executive orders or posting on social media. He lacked the ability to stand his ground because his mindset tends to seek immediate gratification and quick victories. Trump is a strong man, but his unpredictability and belief in his genius in deal-making were not enough to sustain him when things got difficult.

That left him vulnerable to the influence of those—like Steve Witkoff, his special envoy to the Middle East, and adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner—whose approach to Iran resembled that of members of past Democratic administrations.

A man with a coherent set of foreign-policy principles, as opposed to one with an unquenchable desire for short-term triumphs, might have understood that Witkoff, Kushner and Vice President JD Vance—the putative leader of the neo-isolationists within the administration—were leading him toward the same misguided stand on Iran as Obama.

His devoted MAGA fans refused to believe it. They repeatedly chided anyone who expressed fears that he was on track to surrender the gains that the war had achieved, as not understanding his subtle strategy. They said any indication that he might mimic Obama’s betrayal of the West on Iran was simply a matter of Trump playing three-dimensional chess while deceiving and trolling his critics. So deep is their faith in him that some will keep on insisting on this long after it’s become obvious that they have been deceived.

But their faith in his judgement is misplaced. Rather than endure more months of criticism, high oil prices and sinking popularity ratings in pursuit of the goals on which he had staked so much American blood and treasure, Trump has simply folded on one of the key foreign policy priorities he had adhered to since he entered politics in 2015.

Repeating Obama’s blunder

Trump’s claims notwithstanding, Iran’s nuclear ambitions have not been snuffed out. The pact leaves open the possibility that they can keep their remaining nuclear material. The promises they have made about not seeking nuclear weapons are merely recycled lies with which they had fooled the president’s predecessors. They are no more trustworthy than those in President Barack Obama’s dangerously weak 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that Trump had rightly derided as worthless for the past 10 years. Indeed, though Trump’s proposed terms for ending Iran’s nuclear program are somewhat tougher than Obama’s, both rely on Tehran, which is to say, they are equally meaningless.

Why, after so much bellicose rhetoric as well as tangible military success in the war, did Trump ultimately fold, handing both his domestic critics and his Iranian antagonists such a victory?

The United States and Israel had inflicted devastating losses on Iran’s military, as well as its missile and nuclear programs, along with much of the country’s infrastructure, with which it had threatened the region. But Iran did have the power—via drone and missile fire—to menace shipping in the Persian Gulf, thus impacting the price of oil.

Thanks to the energy independence that Trump’s policies had helped achieve, Americans felt the impact of that problem less than most other people around the world. Yet it still led to higher gas prices at the pump in the United States. Given that Trump had not made a compelling case for war to the American people, that fact increased the conflict’s unpopularity, exacerbating the Republican Party’s deficit in the polls about the outcome of this fall’s midterm elections.

That created enormous pressure—amplified by those inside the administration, led by Vance, who were already opposed to his tough policy on Iran—to end the war without achieving any of its initial goals. Though not explicitly stated, the point of starting the war was to make Iran surrender its nuclear material, as well as its ballistic missiles and its decades-long policy of fomenting terror around the region. Washington had rightly left its intentions about overthrowing the Islamist regime vague, hoping that the pounding Tehran’s forces had taken, coupled with the elimination of much of its leadership, would lead to that result or force the slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s successors to give in to American demands.

Folding under pressure

The president could have kept striking Iran until it bowed to his will. Or, once he agreed to a loose ceasefire in April could have kept enforcing a blockade on Iran’s ports, which was doing far more damage to its economy than the spike in oil prices was having on the West, until Tehran gave up or the regime imploded.

But he didn’t do either of those things. He folded under pressure and abandoned the gains that Washington and Jerusalem had achieved.

Even worse, he accepted Iran’s premise that an end to the fighting must also cover Jerusalem’s efforts to force the Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon to stop firing on northern Israel and cede power in Beirut. That also led to Trump’s much-publicized abusive comments about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his erstwhile faithful partner in the war, about his temerity in prioritizing the defense of his people over the president’s pursuit of futile diplomacy with Iran.

The damage inflicted on Iran during the first two months of fighting was real and set back its ability to spread mayhem throughout the region. It will take years for it to rebuild its military and reconstitute its nuclear and missile threats.

And there is always the possibility that Trump could reverse course and resume the attacks once it becomes clear that Iran is simply retooling its infrastructure of terror and aggression.

But does anyone in Washington and Jerusalem, and elsewhere in the West—and most importantly, in Tehran—seriously believe he will do that now that he’s declared that this accord has resolved all of the world’s concerns about Iran? The Iranians know that he has had enough of the fighting; that made them even more intransigent. As they did during the negotiations with Obama and his envoys, they had his measure and acted accordingly.

Trump has now made the same mistake as Obama by relaxing sanctions and even unfreezing billions of Iranian funds held by the United States and its allies. As Lee Smith aptly noted in Tablet magazine, the transfer of $20 billion in frozen assets by the United Arab Emirates, with $3 billion already delivered to Tehran, perhaps in cash stacked on wooden pallets like those sent by the 44th president to pay off the Islamist terrorists a decade ago, is key to understanding what has just happened.

The money that Trump’s surrender will make available to the Iranian government will prop it up, and likely ensure both its longevity and its ability to sustain its Hezbollah and Hamas terrorist allies in Lebanon and Gaza.

The consequences of surrender

The oil may now flow, as the president trumpeted on Truth Social, through the Straits of Hormuz, and gas prices may decline. But the flow of cash to Iran is a guarantee that its regime will go on fomenting terror and war in the future, even after Trump leaves office in January 2029. As Obama did with his signature foreign-policy “achievement,” he has left a dangerous problem for his successors to solve that will be far worse and much harder to eliminate than it would have been for him had he not surrendered.

Iran’s tyrants can, with justice, say that they survived a fearsome assault by the United States and Israel, and ultimately forced a superpower to give up. Still, it will take time for them to get back to where they were on Oct. 6, 2023, before the confident launching of the cruel war on Israel launched by their “resistant front” with the atrocities of Oct. 7. The losses sustained by the Iranian regime, as well as Hamas and Hezbollah, during the fighting that took place during the last 33 months were not imaginary. All are far weaker than they were then.

But there is also no doubt that Iran’s prospects have improved since the start of the year, when it seemed as if the regime that had murdered tens of thousands of its citizens who protested its tyrannical rule was on its last legs.

By threatening to topple the Islamist terrorists but failing to make good on those threats, Trump did terrible damage to his standing throughout the world, as well as that of the United States. Much like Obama’s going back on his talk of taking action against the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria if it crossed a “red line” by using chemical weapons on its people, Trump has shown the Middle East that he, too, can be cowed into backing down. The American and Israeli attacks had shown Iran’s military weakness, but Tehran can now, as it did previously, claim to be the “strong horse” of the region that won’t reverse course in the face of Western attacks.

The deal with Iran is also a blow to the U.S.-Israel alliance.

The months of close cooperation between the two nations’ militaries had demonstrated just how powerful and important the bond between Washington and Jerusalem had become. By ending the war without achieving its goals and chiding the Israelis to stop defending themselves, Trump has sent the world a message that while not completely left on its own, the Jewish state has been put in a precarious position. His hyperbolic and inaccurate statements—“If it were not for me, there would be no Israel right now”—could be excused while he was actually supporting Israel, though now that he is undermining its security in this manner, they leave a bitter taste in the mouths of friends of the Jewish state.

A lost opportunity

The interests of the two nations aren’t identical, though they do mostly overlap. And Israel isn’t giving up and will continue to do what it must to defend itself. However, an opportunity to transform the region by defeating Tehran has been lost. And that will make future conflicts—that Trump’s deal, like Obama’s, will help foment—even more bloody and dangerous for the Jewish state, as well as moderate Arab states that must continue to fear what Iran will do in the years to come.

Domestically, Trump’s decision also strengthens the wing of his party that was soft on Iran and uninterested in defending Western interests in the Middle East. And those in the Democratic Party who no longer support Israel and opposed efforts to forestall the Iranian threat that Obama had encouraged have also been handed a victory. They can say that Trump wasted American lives and vast amounts of scarce military assets only to accept the same humiliation that Obama achieved without firing a single shot.

Vance, whose 2028 presidential prospects seemed on the wane in recent months, is a major beneficiary of this decision. His claim on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that every conflict, including World War II, ended in negotiation illustrated his lack of understanding of both the war and history. Yet that absurd statement puts him on Trump’s side in the current foreign-policy debate, which strengthens his chances of being the president’s successor and next leader of the GOP.

Trump may remain a better guardian of American security, as well as a more reliable friend of Israel and the Jewish people than his Democratic predecessors. But sadly, his war on Iran will now be spoken of with the same derision that he had used to describe the failed conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, even though that needn’t have happened had Trump been a man of stronger convictions and headed a less chaotic administration.

The fact that stopping Iran’s nuclear ambitions and terrorism was as much in America’s interests as that of any other country will be forgotten and even downplayed by many of the president’s supporters. And the growing antisemitic movement on both the left and the right will pick up, and endlessly repeat the false narrative that it was Israel that led the United States to pursue a conflict that couldn’t be won.

We should not lose faith in Israel’s ultimate victory over the evil ideology that governs Iran and animates its terrorist allies. It is a more formidable nation than it was before Oct. 7, and will—no matter who leads it in the coming years—do what it must to defend itself. Yet, like the failure to eliminate Hamas in Gaza after Oct. 7, Trump’s decision to breathe new life into the Tehran regime will mean that more wars will have to be fought in the coming years to achieve that necessary goal. That’s a tragedy that could have been averted had Trump proved to be wiser and more steadfast than he turned out to be.


Jonathan S. Tobin is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS “Think Twice” podcast, both the weekly video program and the “Jonathan Tobin Daily” program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.


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